According to MOBIlearn the advances in computer technology, intelligent user interfaces, context modeling applications and recent developments in the field of wireless communications including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, multi-hop wireless LAN and global wireless technologies such as GPS, GSM, GPRS, 3G and satellite systems have created a wide array of new possibilities for technology users. When these technologies started to be used in conjunction with mobile computers a new learning paradigm, mobile learning, emerged.

Mobile learning, or m-learning, has been defined as learning that takes place via such wireless devices as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA’s), or laptop computers. In the different definitions encountered in the literature, it is only the employment of specific types of technology that seem to differentiate mobile learning from other forms of learning.

In the last few years, Europe and North America have experienced a new wave of technology. The growing number of adepts of portable computing based on technologies embedded on laptops, palmtops and smartphones which hold wireless connection and Bluetooth™ technology is notable.

In Brazil, portable computing technology still isn’t popular. The main users of palmtops are in business and industry. The same fact that occurred with mobile phones must occur with palmtops, they will gain users while their main function increase and the price drops. Mobile devices tend reach pupils in all levels. Schools and teachers must be trained to achieve tasks on this scenario.